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re: Kirby Smart since being hired in 2016
Posted on 11/13/22 at 4:34 pm to diddlydawg7
Posted on 11/13/22 at 4:34 pm to diddlydawg7
Mark Richt went 9-3 the year Georgia fired him to hire Kirby. They must have had a ton of faith in Kirby and it's paying off
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Posted on 11/13/22 at 4:50 pm to Luggahead
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Mark Richt went 9-3 the year Georgia fired him to hire Kirby. They must have had a ton of faith in Kirby and it's paying off
They finished with 10 wins after the bowl game, and it was one of the emptiest 10 win seasons in the history of cfb. We didn't even finish ranked in one of the polls and beat no one of consequence. Georgia Southern took us to OT that year. It was the right move to move on. Richt was clearly on the downside by that point and the program was totally stagnant.
Posted on 11/13/22 at 5:27 pm to Luggahead
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Mark Richt went 9-3 the year Georgia fired him to hire Kirby. They must have had a ton of faith in Kirby and it's paying off
No, the right people finally tired of the "aw shucks" schtick and knew that his ceiling was just what he had shown: 9.5 wins per year. I wanted him fired years prior, but who the frick am I but one man in a sea of red that idolized the man for some perceived greatness because he used the words "God" and "Jesus" more than some other coaches with more wins and hardware.
It probably didn't hurt that the admin was assured that Kirby would come home and usher in sweeping changes to make the Bulldog Machine more sophisticated.
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